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	'<{title}>' => 'Difficulties with the ring company',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="ring">
	<h2>Ring exchange</h2>
	<p>
		I received an email telling me that because I hadn&apos;t enclosed the exchange fee, the exchange can&apos;t be made.
		I was then given a link to a PayPal page that allows payment of the fee.
		First of all, I asked multiple times how to pay the fee, and was told not to pay it.
		Secondly, the PayPal page is requiring me to sign in to pay the fee, and PayPal locks up my credit card any time I log in.
		Last time I asked them to delete my account, they didn&apos;t do it, and instead locked the account, so I can&apos;t sign in anyway.
		The account&apos;s locked.
		I responded to the email explaining the situation, so I guess we&apos;ll see how that goes.
		With my luck, they&apos;ll claim they can&apos;t send the new ring without the fee, but also can&apos;t send the old ring back without the fee.
		Or if they do send one of the two rings, they won&apos;t send the bonus ring they neglected to send the first time.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		For breakfast, I had 80 grams of cereal and 151 grams of soy milk.
		For lunch, I had spaghetti with cashew sauce, totalling 342 grams.
		I also had a 292-gram smoothie.
		For dinner, I had 267 grams more of spaghetti and cashew sauce, along with a 305-gram smoothie.
		I also snacked on 92 grams of pretzels.
		Honestly, I think I ate too much today.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="exercise">
	<h2>Exercise</h2>
	<p>
		Today was my only day this week without a scheduled trip somewhere, so I postponed my bottle-redemption errand for today.
		Normally, I would have done it on a Tuesday, which would have been yesterday.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for today:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I like how you explain both views in general and specifically materialised views.
			As you pointed out, there&apos;s a rather large difference.
			A view simply shows you the results of a specific query.
			The query itself must be stored so it can be run every time the view is used, but no actual data from the database is stored by the view.
			On the other hand, when dealing with materialised views, the results of the query <strong>*do*</strong> get stored.
			Thanks for sharing your perspective on this!
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a good point about turning off services you don&apos;t need.
			Linux has something similar to the Windows Remote Desktop, called Secure Shell.
			It&apos;s a remote command line by default, though if you pass in the <code>-X</code> flag, you can get a full graphical desktop session.
			Even without any know bugs though, an attacker could try a brute force attack to figure out the password.
			No specific exploit is needed.
			The safest option is to disable remote shell access if you&apos;re not planning to use it.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		It seems that in the coming week, the only assignments in one of my courses are a reading assignment and the grading of the assignment for this week.
		In the other course, I have reading and grading to do too, but I also have the expected learning journal and discussion assignments.
		I guess I&apos;ll start the reading material for that course first, so as to finish the assignments I actually need to submit, before moving on to the reading material of the course with the lighter load.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religious study</h2>
	<p>
		I wanted to take a nap today because I was tired, but instead, I read Alma 5 as the missionaries had asked.
		They&apos;re going to drop by tomorrow, so it&apos;d be good to have read what they wanted me to read.
		I&apos;m not even sure why they&apos;re still coming at this point.
		And also, reading this chapter now, instead of when I get to it, doesn&apos;t really help with my notes on these religious texts.
		If I skip around, I don&apos;t have the contexts of the things prior, so I can&apos;t really add my uninformed musings to my take on things.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, the chapter is about Alma preaching to some people.
		He tells them they can&apos;t get into heaven if they haven&apos;t been purified by the blood of Christ, because they&apos;re of the kingdom of Satan.
		It&apos;s a real us-versus-them mentality thing.
		There&apos;s no middle ground.
		You can&apos;t be opposed to both.
		Which of course, makes no sense, because Jesus and Satan are <strong>*both*</strong> evil, just in different ways.
		The chapter also threatens that only through accepting Jesus can you have eternal life.
		That means either some of us don&apos;t have an afterlife or the book is misusing the phrase &quot;eternal life&quot;.
		The misuse of the phrase is what the Mormons believe to be accurate, though they claim it not to be a misuse.
		They claim that living on while cut off from Elohim is death, even though you&apos;re still living.
		That&apos;s not what those words mean though.
		Death is a ceasing to live, not a cutting off from the presence of your lord.
		Also, again, it makes the claim that all good works come from Jesus and all evil works come from Satan.
		Ignoring the fact that <strong>*a great many*</strong> evil works have come from Jesus according to the scriptures, this means once more that nothing can come from you.
		You&apos;re either following the word of Jesus or following the word of Satan.
		No ideas and no works ever come from you.
		You are nothing.
		Even Satan is better than you, because at lease Satan has the creativity to come up with things, which is something no human can do, apparently.
	</p>
</section>
END
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